211 Quotes by Neil Strauss

Using words like “casual” and “hang out,” and the time constraint, were all part of a strategy to make the visit a low-pressure event. It’s a much better way to get someone to commit to time with a stranger than AFC-style dinner dating, which can be a painful, drawn-out affair that involves two people who may have nothing in common stuck together for an entire night of awkward conversation.

Beauty is common but what’s rare is a great energy and outlook on life.

A rich man doesn’t need to tell you he’s rich.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn’t last until death, it’s a failure. But the only relationship that’s truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it’s depth, not by it’s lenght.

Death is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more important to the universe than those of the two hundred thousand insects each of us kills with the front of our car every year.

The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

They say that when you meet someone and feel like it’s love at first sight, run in the other direction. All that’s happened is that your dysfunction has meshed with their dysfunction. Your wounded inner child has recognized their wounded inner child, both hoping to be healed by the same fire that burned them.

To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don’t have to feel the shame behind it.